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This year’s meetings were held in Tromsø, Norway, from 25 to 27 March 2025, with representatives from all four NAMMCO member countries, as well as observer states and inter- and non-governmental [...]

The 2025 MINTAG tagging season has officially begun, with Japan being the first partner country to head out today! The MINTAG project is an international scientific project between the Faroe [...]

A new study by Tange Olsen and colleagues, titled “Complex origins and history of the relict Fennoscandian ringed seals”, was published in Ecology and Evolution in April 2025. The study explores [...]

A new study by Heide-Jørgensen, titled “Are narwhals critical for the meat supply in East Greenland?”, was published in Arctic Science in February 2025. The study examines how much narwhals [...]

A new study by Postel and colleagues, titled “Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N5) detected in an Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, [...]

A recent study by McCarthy and colleagues, titled “Circumpolar Population Structure, Diversity and Recent Evolutionary History of the Bearded Seal in Relation to Past and Present [...]

On 10 April, NAMMCO hosted the 7th Annual Marine Mammal Student Symposium in Tromsø, bringing together students and early-career researchers from marine biology and the law of the sea.  This [...]

At NAMMCO’s 32nd Annual Council Meeting, held from 25 to 27 March at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway, the focus was on marine mammal welfare and on the various projects led by NAMMCO. Member [...]

Marine mammals are hunted for food and other resources across various regions of the world, from west to east and north to south, in very different environmental and cultural contexts. A shared [...]

NAMMCO will hold its 32nd Annual Meeting in Tromsø, Norway, from 25th  to 27th  March 2025. The meeting will include sessions of the Council and Management Committees.  We are excited to announce [...]